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are uot confined, however, to the cnt pine, ])ut spread to the adjacent 

 standing pine and even into the hard-wood forests, carrying destruction 

 with them, and leaving but the gaunt, bare, and blackened trunks to mark 

 the sites of what were formerlj' thick forests. 



The pine-covered areas have a thin soil and are ])oorl)- adapted to 

 agriculture. The areas covered with hard wood have, on the contrary, soil 

 well adapted to the crops of the latitude. 



The advance of the lumberman has necessitated tlie damming and 

 clearing of streams and the blasting of channels to permit the floating of 

 the logs, and this has driven the fish, especially the speckled trout, which 

 formerly crowded all the streams, into the smallest and most inaccessible 

 ones. Ruffed grouse, Bonasa iimheUus, and deer are still rather plentiful in 

 certain portions of the area, although the pot-hunter with set guns, spring 

 nooses, and pitfalls is rapidl}' exterminating them. The deadly character 

 of such appliances is brought vividly to mind, when, as happened in my 

 own case, one is suddenly arrested, while following a deer trail tln-oug'h the 

 underbrush, by a hay wire noose around his neck, and he may be thankful 

 if the bent sapling, having been bent so long as to lose its elasticity, fails 

 to spring up and render the device eftective. 



